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Originally Posted by slownugly
Also if you still have a wheel bearing noise a good way to tell is it will increase with vehicle speed. Plus at speed if you turn the wheel to the left or right the noise will get louder or quieter. Don't always go by " it sounds like the right side" I've had to eat parts in the past because it sounds like the noise is the right side but it's actually the noise/vibration traveling across and fooling you. I have a diagnostic procedure for hub/wheel bearings to determine which side it is. I can share if you like
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I half expect the transmission will not completely solve the bearing noise problem. So I would love to hear/see your diagnostic because I wasn't satisfied with the official Honda procedure. Their test requires an expensive and hard to find gauge tool. So I spot tested the hubs, which the shop manual gives a movement tolerance of less than a mm. I tested for any play whatsoever. But it was like looking for play in the "Honda" lettering on the cam cover. Solid. I did the trans because mine has more than 200K on it, and is well indicated as a source of the symptoms. It was the best indicated step--after testing quite a lot.
BUT, what you describe above is one of the symptoms. Maybe the noise is a compound of problems. I'll know more when I fire it up today or tomorrow. I like testing. Empiricism is good.